[…] Norwood about her childhood among a group of pro-Soviet radical exiles in England in the 1920s and 30s, when it was revealed in the press, via the KGB defector Metrokhin, that she had been a Soviet spy during and after WW2, leaking nuclear secrets. So Burke’s research shifted its focus and this book is […]
[…] activity. But Beck learns that by the 1960s RIS had long since ceased using foreign Communist Parties for espionage. In Havana he manages to identify the local KGB chief, but that’s about all, even after endless tailing. Because CIA chiefs are so paranoid about RIS penetration, officers are only given instructions and told nothing […]
[…] selection of primary sources ranging from official archives in the UK, France, Germany, Italy, Canada and the USA to private collections and even the records of the KGB (mostly used in the section devoted to the Hess affair). Costello’s assiduous pursuit of documentary evidence and his willingness, for the sake of historical accuracy, to […]
[…] when another Soviet source ‘Fedora’ notified the FBI that Jack Childs was about to meet with Soviet contacts. The FBI were worried that this might be a KGB attempt to determine whether the FBI knew about the Childs link in the CPUSA/Soviet financial affairs. In the end the rendezvous went ahead and nothing untoward […]
[…] conspiracy theory nutters. But that’s about par for the course in these fields. The examples of Soviet disinformation offered by Gordievsky from the 1980s in his book KGB were laughably incompetent, forgeries which would fool no-one and which had zero distribution as far as I know on this country’s left. And their incompetence brings […]
[…] because to the Soviets it appeared that Wynne was a businessman they might recruit. For this reason, according to Brook-Shepherd, Wynne never came under suspicion by the KGB. (3) In some ways then, Wynne, somewhat on the sidelines, became an innocent, though no doubt willing, pawn in a complex intelligence operation by British Intelligence. […]
[…] Ibid The spooks handled the launch of the first volume of The Mitrokhin Archive so badly that I only found out from his obituary that former senior KGB Archivist Vasili Mitrokhin had been a KGB dissident years before he started compiling his private archive. (The Guardian, 4 February 2004) In the obituary Professor Andrew […]
[…] an FBI informant and a CIA or Office of Naval Intelligence (ONI) agent; but he was also working for the communists as a double agent of the KGB or GRU! Russell proposes that, having been sent to the USSR as part of a phony ‘military defectors’ programme run by the CIA or ONI, the […]
[…] sponsor of groups called the Committee for Christian Aid to War Prisoners and Committee for Justice and Trade which were working on behalf of German war criminals. KGB shot the Pope (not) A pretty large frisson of excitement ran through sections of the Western media on 1 April (!) at news reports that East […]
Hollis again What with the opening of the KGB archives and the testimony of Oleg Gordievsky, you might be forgiven for thinking that the question, Was MI5 Director-General Roger Hollis a Soviet spy? had been answered conclusively and resoundingly ‘No’. You would be wrong – or so says the doyen of British espionage writers, […]
